OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:56 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Santiago, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

Santiago

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Luke (S. Lvcas)

St. Luke (S. Lvcas)

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coronation of the Virgin, by Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560

Coronation of the Virgin

Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1530–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan general d’une Maison sise à Neuilly près le Bois de Boulogne dont Mr. Bélanger, Architect, à augmenté et ajusté les Batimens tant à l’extérieur que dans l’intérieur et dont il a fait les Jardins anglaise pour Mr. de Saint James maintenant à Mr Basan, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan general d’une Maison sise à Neuilly près le Bois de Boulogne dont Mr. Bélanger, Architect, à augmenté et ajusté les Batimens tant à l’extérieur que dans l’intérieur et dont il a fait les Jardins anglaise pour Mr. de Saint James maintenant à Mr Basan

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
San Jose, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

San Jose

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
San Juan Nepomuceno, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

San Juan Nepomuceno

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Virgen del pilar, by José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809

La Virgen del pilar

José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna, by Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d.

Madonna

Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d. · ca. 1500-1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francis Davis Millet, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Francis Davis Millet

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3006712 matched · 40 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 15:56 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.